How to check my RAM for errors?

What symptoms lead me to check my RAM for errors?

If your computer hangs sometimes or several times a day while watching a movie, using a program, surfing the internet, chatting with someone or any other activities there might be a problem with your RAM, I know that the cause of a computer being hanged may vary and there might be several reasons behind that but one of those reasons is the RAM and thats why we should check out ram for issues.

What does a RAM mean?

The RAM is a fundamental component for all computers and laptops, hence without having a RAM installed on your motherboard will prevent that particular computer from booting and working (it will act as a dead PC).

The RAM is handling all CPU processes and any system operations, any software or program needs a RAM to be working, so some heavy software like 3DMAX or Autocad or even PC games require a high RAM requirements in order to be working.

Note: RAM is one of the factors that a PC performance is depending on, the bigger size of RAM the better performance.

What is a RAM size?

RAM measured in Giga Bytes, like this RAM is 2 GB or 4GB, however for more information about RAMs you can read by clicking on the below RAM types:

How to check if my RAM is the cause of my pc problems?

Microsoft has coded a small tool to check any type of RAM for errors called Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, and the good thing about this tool is you don’t execute it from within the Microsoft Windows environments, instead you run it from a bootable CD and it will run its tests as per your requirements, so in this case you will discover if your RAM was the cause of your problems or you may look for other reasons.

How to download the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool?

How to use the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool?

By clicking on the button above you will download mtinst.exe file that you need to execute to extract an ISO file called windiag.iso and what you need to do with it is to use one of the CD burning software to extract this ISO file and use it.

DO NOT PANIC, THEY ARE SO SIMPLE STEPS AS SHOWN BELOW, EVERYONE CAN HANDLE IT EVEN AVERAGE USERS.

So now you need to follow the below steps:

Double click on mtinst.exe and click on run if security alerts shown.

Click on Accept.

And because no one is using the floppy disk these days so you have to click on “Save CD Image to Disk“.

Save windiag.iso on Desktop for instance.

And by saving the windiag.iso on your desktop you are now required to prepare the below: